0 in a way that is not attractive, especially because of being awkward in movement or manner:
The stool I sat on wobbled and I had to fling out a leg inelegantly to regain my balance.
We inelegantly rode our sinking craft in on the surf and dragged it up the beach.
He managed to let everyone know he was a former champion by inelegantly forcing it into the conversation.
One relates to the position of the radiographers, and the other is concerned with the position of the people who are so inelegantly, and inappropriately, called paramedics.
While we must aim to secure the fullest possible use of land within the conurbations, we must clearly also plan for a great wave of what is inelegantly termed "overspill".
Category (a) cases are those which lie in what may inelegantly be called the macro-political field.
Category (a) cases are those that lie... in what may inelegantly be called the macro-political field.
